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Volume 1. Issue 10

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Billy Graham meets Mitt Romney

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THE BENGHAZI COVER-UP

FCS Student Group Bake Sale

October 30, 9am – 3pmbetween Bloch and Wills

SGA Exec. MeetingOctober 31,

3:30pm – 4:30pmSGA Conference Room

Haunted AttractionOctober 30, 6pm – 10pm

Bibb Graves

Sigma Alpha Iota Halloween Carnival

October 31, 7pm – 10pmDavis Hall Band Room

What We Saw:Dum Dum Girls atBottletree page 5 arts

IN THIS ISSUE

Lambda Chi Alpha Pumpkin Fest

November 1, 2pm – 5pmMain Quad

by Kyle JonesEditor-in-Chief

Changing the face of fundraising

Shuttles to AlabasterNovember 3, 12pm – 6pm

Becoming Sculpture

byAndrew MeechumAssociate Editor

Photos: Courtesy of Movember

Ever since the attack in Benghazi, Lib-ya the American people have been subjected to what appears to be a cover up. Despite initial efforts by the Obama administration to pin the attack on a protest gone bad, more and more information is coming to light that would suggest either a cover up or gross misconduct and neg-ligence on the part of administration officials. Based on re-ports from The Daily Beast, FOX News and Breitbart this is what we know so far: 1. Three urgent re-quests from the CIA annex in Benghazi for military back up during

the attack on the U.S. Consulate and subse-quent attack nearly sev-en hours later were de-nied by officials in the CIA chain of command -- who also told the CIA operators to "stand down" rather than help the ambassador's team. 2. Former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were at the CIA annex approximately a mile from the U.S. Consulate where Am-bassador Chris Stevens and his team came un-der attack. When they heard the shots fired, they radioed to higher to tell them what was go-ing on. They were again told to "stand down." 3. Woods, Doherty and at least two others ig-nored those orders and made their way to the Consulate, which at that point was on fire. 4. The quick reaction force from the CIA an-nex evacuated those who remained at the Consulate, including

Sean Smith, who had been killed in the ini-tial attack. Ambas-sador Stevens was not found at that time. 5. Around midnight Navy SEALs Ty-rone Woods and Glen Doherty returned to the CIA annex. They called for military support and they were again denied. According to reports from those pres-ent at the compound there were no commu-nications problems hin-dering their requests. 6. At one point one of the personnel on the ground had a laser pointed at an artillery position “paint-ing” the target for air support to attack. Re-peated requests for air support were denied. 7. Specter gunships were 480 miles away at Sigonella Air Base. The fighting went on for more than 4 more hours leaving ample time for an air response. Other units stationed in the region, including Spe-

cial Operators and Na-val assets, were close enough effect a quick response including two separate Tier 1 Spe-cial Operations Forces who were told to wait. 8. Two military sur-veillance drones were redirected to Benghazi shortly after the attack on the Consulate began. The second surveillance craft was sent to relieve the first drone, perhaps due to fuel issues. The drones provided real time visuals to officials in Washington, D.C. Any U.S. official or agency with the prop-er security clearance, including the White House Situation Room where President Obama is believed to have been, the State Department, CIA, Pentagon and oth-ers could call up that video in real-time on their desktop computers. Currently the mainstream media is providing little to no coverage about any of this. Whether this is a

genuine cover up like Watergate or Iran-Con-tra is at this point debat-able as all the facts are have yet to come to light.

What is appar-ent is that the media is playing cheerleader for the current admin-istration as opposed to acting as the people’s watchdog. During the 1980s the media spent a great deal of time and effort in hounding the Reagan administration to uncover the Iran-Contra Affair. What we see now is a media that is willfully allow-ing the government to cover up the events surrounding the deaths of four Americans at the hands of terrorists. At the end of the day, the Obama ad-ministration was aware that Americans were dying in a foreign land at the hands of our en-emies and despite be-ing aware of it in real time did nothing to help or prevent their deaths.

Starting on the first of November the faces of The Falcon staff will change when they begin Movember, an in-ternational fundraising and awareness event for men’s cancer research. Movember be-gan in Australia in 2003 when 30 friends got together to grow mus-taches for fun. The next year four of the origi-nal 30 members got to-gether to continue their tradition but this time

they did it for a cause. That year, 450 participants raised $43,000 for the Pros-tate Cancer Foun-dation of Australia. Movember came to the US in 2007, with 2,127 participants rais-ing over $740,000. This year, there will be offi-cial Movember cam-paigns in 21 countries. In 2011, the US campaign saw more than 145,000 Ameri-cans growing and sup-porting the Mo, raising over $15 million for men’s health, specifi-cally prostate and testic-ular cancer initiatives. All funds raised by “MoBros” go to Movember’s men’s health partners Pros-tate Cancer Foundation

and the LIVESTRONG Foundation which works to ensure that Movember funds are supporting innovative, world-class programs in three areas: aware-ness/education, survi-vorship and research. The rules are simple, men start clean shaven on November 1 and grow mustaches for 30 days in an effort to become walking, talk-ing billboards for men’s health, all while raising funds along the way. Movember pro-vides a fun and interest-ing way to get men talk-ing about their health which can often be a dif-ficult obstacle for males. To get involved, visit movember.com to register and to set up your own MoSpace. The

Falcon staff will be doc-umenting our progress via facebook and in each week’s issue throughout the month of “Movem-ber”. Help us reach our goal of $200 by visit-ing our team page at http:/ /us.movember.c o m / t e a m / 4 5 8 0 8 9 .

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news “If there’s anything that’s important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility. “

-Mike Wallace

by Neal EmbryStaff Writer

Five Day Weather ForecastbyAndrew MeechumAssociate Editor

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One is not a choice

Election 2012: Graham and Romney

Monday, October 29th, 2012

Forget the plati-tudes, niceties and double-speak the candi-dates are shouting to the masses prior to the elec-tion. There is one issue that will irrevocably change the way Ameri-ca does healthcare, and potentially pave the way for changing the way we do business altogether. If President Obama is reelected we are guaranteed that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare, will go into full effect, and your insurance options will dwindle as a result. In-surance companies will have no choice but to comply with federal regulations outlined in Obamacare. All of them will try, and ulti-mately they will all fold. Once all the in-surance companies are under the regulation and guidance of the govern-ment the need for com-petition will disappear, as well the number of companies offering in-surance. Their demise will leave a vacuum in place of the insur-

ance options that we have today. However, Obamacare will fill the void leaving one healthcare choice. One is not a choice, and our forefathers knew that. Health Care, the practice of medicine and the regulation of its body is not a power granted to the federal government under the constitution. The tenth amendment states: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respec-tively, or to the people. The powers pro-hibited of states as listed in Article 1, Section 10 of the constitution con-tain a litany activities the states can’t be trust-ed to handle on their own. Among them are entering into treaties, coining money, pass-ing attainders or keep-ing troops in a time of peace. Of the 13 pro-hibited powers none of them can be remotely attached to health-care or its regulation. By allowing the

states to more or less do business on their own, diversity of choice was guaranteed by the con-stitution. Initially there were 13 choices, now we have 50. There is no promise healthcare costs will go down or stay at current levels but at least you’ll still have a choice. With Obam-acare the American peo-ple will have one choice, and one choice only. Another factor of Obamacare is that the powers that passed it, Congress and the White House, don’t have to abide by it. They will fall under a different health care plan and won’t be limited by the regulations outlined. By allowing the gov-erning body to fall un-der a different set of rules than the populace we are further divid-ing ourselves into two classes, the ruling and subservient classes. This brings to mind the quote from Orson Well’s Animal Farm, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

Billy Graham, perhaps the most fa-mous evangelical Chris-tian in the world, recent-ly met with presidential candidate Mitt Rom-ney. Graham prayed for Romney, and told him that he would do “all he can to help him.” For profess-ing Christians, is the meeting cause for con-cern, or a step in the right direction toward peace? What does it mean that Graham took Mormonism off of a list of cults on his website? It seems that “America’s pastor” has a lot of answering to do. For several gen-erations, Billy Graham has been the standard-bearer for evangelical Christianity, famously leading crusades that saw thousands come to faith in Jesus Christ. He unashamedly pro-

claims the gospel, and is respected by many, both inside and out-side the Christian faith. Mitt Romney is an outspoken Mor-mon. Mormonism is typically referred to as a cult by Christianity, and is not seen as part of the Christian religion. So what exactly hap-pened at this meeting? We know Gra-ham prayed with Rom-ney. He also pledged to help him in any way he could. He has since promoted his “values and high moral con-victions,” and agreed with Romney on his positions on abortion and same-sex mar-riage. According to the Los Angeles Times, they also discussed re-ligious freedom, the situation in Afghani-stan and ministries in China and North Korea. Franklin Gra-ham, Billy’s son, said that his father’s deci-sion to endorse Gov-ernor Romney was his own. While Billy Graham did not issue a formal endorsement, his statements and ad supporting “the candi-date with biblical prin-

ciples” all but indicates whom the 94-year-old pastor is voting for. The bigger is-sue may be the deci-sion to remove Mor-monism from a list of cults on the Billy Gra-ham Evangelical As-sociation’s website. "We removed the information from the website because we do not wish to par-ticipate in a theological debate about something that has become politi-cized during this cam-paign,” said Ken Barun, chief of staff at the Bily Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA). The move is surprising, as Mormons are not typically seen as Christians, though many claim to be part of the Christian faith. The effects of the decision could impact relations between Christians and Mormons, the upcom-ing election and the rep-utation of Billy Graham. The major doc-trinal differences be-tween Christianity and Mormonism, accord-ing to the Bible and the Book of Mormon, respectively, centers on the identity of Je-

sus and the authority of Scripture. The Mormon faith denies that Jesus was always fully God, where the Bible clearly states that Jesus is the eternal God, part of the Trinity, and never stops being God. There is de-bate on how Mormons view salvation, wheth-er it is by good works or the grace of God for those who believe. "There is no flesh that can dwell in the presence of God save it be through the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy Mes-siah" (2 Nephi 2:8). This seems to teach sal-vation by grace through faith, but Mormons have long been seen as teach-ing salvation by good works. Some Mormons may believe in salvation by good works, as do some Christians. Both beliefs go against the teachings of their litera-ture, and are in no way indicative of what the faiths believe as a whole. Mormons also believe that the Bible is good, but that some flaws have been discov-ered, and the Book of Mormon is held up to the same level as the Bi-

ble. The Bible says that it is God’s Word that stands, not that of man. 2 Peter 1:21 says, “For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” 2 Tim-othy speaks of Scripture being “breathed out by God, given by God.” Mormonism ex-alts man-made text to the level of Scripture, and denies the divinity of Jesus, without which He could not have lived a sinless life and be-come the perfect righ-teousness for those who believe, according to the Bible. Using the stan-dard of Scripture, Mor-mons are not Christians. The BGEA said it removed the term from the list of cults so as to not become involved in a theological debate due to political topics. They never state that they re-moved the term because they no longer believe it to be a cult, which would have caused greater conflict. There is no evidence support-ing the idea that Billy Graham has changed his views on Mormonism.

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Ed Stetzer, President of Lifeway research, on the issue of Mormonism being a cult or not, offers this: “Mormonism fits the traditional evangelical definition of a 'theologi-cal cult,' but that is not what most Americans think of when they think of a cult; they think of a compound in Waco. I think it is more help-ful to call it a different religion, like Islam and Judaism, and to share the gospel of Jesus with them accordingly.” Billy Graham has a tremendous in-fluence on evangelical Christianity and how Christians are seen in the public eye. Again, there is no evidence supporting the idea that Graham has changed his views on Mormon-ism. He has, for now, simply changed the website. What remains to be seen is how this move impacts the view of Christianity, and Mormonism, by the country as a whole.

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sports

by Joey AntonioSports Editor

Kicking their way into the tournament

Photo:Montevallo Athletics

For more sports news check out Falcon Fever at youtube.com/montevalloforyou, every Wednesday.

Monday, October 29th, 2012

Playoffs? You wanna talk about play-offs!? Actually, yes we do! The University of Montevallo women’s soccer team nailed down the final spot for the upcoming Peach belt Conference tournament with a 3-1 win over visiting Young Harris College in its annual “Think Pink” match. The match was more than just an im-portant last game of the regular season, it was also a breast can-cer awareness rally. To commemo-rate the match, the team would recognize five special members of the Montevallo commu-nity who had been di-rectly or indirectly im-pacted by breast cancer. It was also the final home game for se-niors Alyssa Maxwell, Britt Gable, Katy Hutto

and Nicola Stolwor-thy. The four seniors were all honored dur-ing the game as well. Before the match even got underway, you could sense that some-thing positive was about to happen. The energy was high and the mo-rale was good and the atmosphere surround-ing the field was quite positive. You just knew that Montevallo was go-ing to come out on top. Jade Penncock kicked off the scoring rally for the Falcons, as she netted the first goal of the game in just the 11th minute of play off a penalty kick. Brittany Wood-house would follow suit as she too kicked in a goal to increase the Fal-con’s lead to 2-0, just ten minutes later in the game’s 22nd minute. However, Young Harris did not just plan to give the Falcon’s a play-off birth, gift wrapped with a ribbon on top. In the 32nd minute Mika Lopes kicked her team back into the game, cutting Montevallo’s advantage to only one. For a while, the score remained the same

as both teams battled fervently for the game’s next twenty-minutes. Then came the dagger, as the Falcon’s Christine Prince put the game out of reach in the 53rd minute of the match to seal the vic-tory for Montevallo, by the score of 3-1. Mon-tevallo goalkeeper Tay-lor Kerr preserved the game for the Falcons as she finished with five saves in the match. This game liter-ally saved the Falcon’s

season, as Montevallo struggled to a 7-8-2 re-cord overall and just 4-6-1 in conference play. In order for the team to make a suc-cessful playoff run, they will need to lean extra hard on their se-nior leadership as well as riding the wave of momentum from their successful season fi-nale. “It’s exciting to be back in the playoffs,” claimed Montevallo coach Patricia Hughes, whose last year’s team

missed out on the tournament entirely. As the post-season approaches, re-gardless of its eventual outcome, you have to be proud of this team. To be faced with a win or go home sce-nario before the tourna-ment even starts defi-nitely gives the Falcon’s a slight edge. After all, they have already had to play under extreme pressure and did so val-iantly. Maybe that is the spark they’ll need to ig-

nite a deep playoff run. It might be a bit of a stretch, but if you are going to dream, why not dream big? The Falcon’s will travel to the top-seeded Armstrong At-lantic State University for a Peach Belt Con-ference tournament quarterfinal match on Oct. 30 at 2 p.m. The winner will advance to the conference semi-final round on Nov. 2nd in Evans, Georgia.

arts&culturePage FourThe Falcon

A clear universe in Cloud Atlas

The sounds of The Man With The Iron Fists

by Mandy SteadmanStaff Writer

Photo: Mandy Steadman

Monday, October 29th, 2012

Have you ever wondered about love or life? Have you ever been intrigued with the possibility of having past lives and living in another life as this one ends? Is it humanly possible for the love of two people to con-tinue on after death? These questions are considered and put to the test in the new film, Cloud Atlas. From the makers of The Ma-trix Trilogy, the mean-ing of freedom, life and love are brought forth in a whirlwind of stories all happening in differ-ent time periods with different characters. What do these characters have in com-mon? They are all look-ing for freedom and love with the feeling of purpose and deja vu. You would think that a movie dealing with differ-ent stories in different time periods with a lot of characters would be very confusing.

The beauty of this particular master-piece, however, is that it is complicated to ex-plain in words, but is simple to understand. It is a great re-lief that this movie does not bounce in different points in time becom-ing so random that the story is lost completely leaving the audience confused and in a daze. It shifts from story to story with meaning and leaves off at similar points in each story. Each story rose to each climax at similar intervals and reached each peak of revela-tion at the same time. Each time a scene shifts to a different time period it leaves au-diences able to convey the connection between the scene before and the current scene although they are taken place in different intervals. It is very clever how the directors, Tom Tykwer, Andy Wa-chowski, and Lana Wa-chowski, told each story in such a way that they all mingled and still had time to show ev-ery point of view fully. What is truly unique and amazing is how the directors re-cycled their actors in such a creative flow

throughout this film. In each time period the ac-tors used stage makeup, different costumes, and unique mannerisms to create at least five dif-ferent characters each. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broad-bent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, James D’Arcy, Xun Zhou, David Gyasi, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant are all mas-ters of this recycling. Each actor por-trayed different genders, races, and occupations from their usual cast-ings. It was extremely cool to watch D’Arcy portray a young college student and then see him in a scene as a Nurse in a retirement home. All of the ac-tors, directors, costum-ers, make-up artists, etc. all worked together to create a clear universe that pushes everyone to the brink of despair for a greater cause. This movie is not only about love sur-viving through time, it is also about the price of freedom and what it really means to different people. For one story, there is a slave try-ing to buy his freedom by acquiring a friend

that has connections. Another is a futuristic woman escaping her provincial life to have the freedom to speak for those who cannot. Then it shifts to a man wanting to have

the freedom to compose his work without the lin-gering eyes of society. This film is a creative portrayal of love surviving in each lifetime and hav-ing the freedom to

change the universe. Indeed that does sound very corny and unappealing to most, but this film does have its perks and is worth seeing in the-aters while it is still out.

by Reed StrengthStaff Writer

“The Man With the Iron Fists”, an up-coming kung-fu movie directed by RZA of the Wu Tang Clan, hits theaters November 2nd. The film’s story was written by RZA and director Eli Roth, known for directing the “Hostel” film series. The film is “presented by” Quentin Tarantino. W h i l e “The Man With the Iron Fists” Is RZA’s direc-torial debut, he lends his musical abilities to the film’s soundtrack as well. RZA’s love of classic kung-fu movies is legendary.His rap collective, Wu Tang Clan, was known for referencing these movies in their lyr-ics and samples. “All those different elements I think, of martial art,

comic books, and hip hop which kinda in-spire my albums, in-spired this movie”, RZA stated in an inter-view with Pitchforktv. Severa l of the other members of the Wu Tang Clan ap-pear on the soundtrack, including Ghost Face Killah, Raekwon, U-God, Method Man, and Inspectah Deck. The collective raps together on the track “Six Di-rections of Boxing”. Kanye West raps on the track “White Dress”. Several other rappers are fea-tured in songs. Freddie Gibbs appears on the track “Built for This” along with Method Man and Streetlife. The song “Black Out” features Pha-raoh Monche, M.O.P. and Ghostface Killah. Flatbush Zom-bies rap on “Just Blowin’ In the Wind” with RZA. Danny Brown, Pusha-T of Clipse, Joel Ortiz of Slaughterhouse, and Raekwon are found on the track “Tick Tock”.In addition to the sev-eral rap artists featured

on the album, blues rock band The Black Keys appear with RZA on the opening track of the al-bum, “The Baddest Man Alive”. Singer Corrine Bailey Rae submits the track “Chains”. Songs featured on the album include cantopop singer Frances Yip’s “Green Is the Mountain”, and “You’re Good Thing (Is About To End)” by blues vocalist Mable John.In addition to the normal CD and mp3 versions of the soundtrack, fans also have the chance to grab an $85 “deluxe ultra pak” as well. The box set contains not only the soundtrack CD autographed by RZA, but the film’s score and soundtrack i n s t r u m e n t a l s .A two CD set entitled the “IRON FIST CHRONI-CLES” collects twenty-four tracks of “soul and funk tracks that inspired the score to the film and the classic sound of the Wu-Tang Clan”.A “Super Limited, Hand Silk-Screen Double Colored Vinyl version of the Soundtrack Album, plus a Bonus 7" Vinyl

Single” are included, as well as two posters. All of the music is available for immediate digital download upon pur-chase of the package.Reception to the soundtrack has been fa-vorable. “Rolling Stone” writer Jody Rosen called the soundtrack “not as evocatively cinematic as the Wu's greatest

songs”, but nonetheless notes that it is a “tasty mix-tape”. Christine Ja-leru of the Associated Press said the album was “kinetic, mesmeric, and chimeric” high-lighting “Just Blowin’ In the Wind”, but calling Kanye West’s contribu-tion the “only misstep”.

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The Dum Nightmarezzz of Devinby Reed StrebgthStaff Writer

Photo:Reed Strength

A perfect album for Halloween

Monday, October 29th, 2012

While Christ-mas music seems to be a bottomless well-spring, the Hallow-een music catalogue is infinitely lacking. To rectify this, I have chosen an album

by Matt SanderlinArts & Culture Editor

The Bottle Tree Café has been at the top of my list of places to check out since I got to Monteval-lo. Not only did I hear reports of great shows from students, but art-ists would name drop it in interviews as the place to play. Whether it was the innovative tUnE-yArDs or the revivalist cult that is Crystal Stilts, the venue was a constant bubble of cool live band action. W h e n I got there on Sunday night, the place was, well…tiny. The “stage” seemed to barely fit the Nightmare Boyzzzs’ gear as they set up. The interior was covered in various Halloween dec-orations, from cobwebs covering the booze bot-tles at the bar, to paper skulls covering the op-posite wall of the room. T h e crowd was thin as Nightmare Boyzzz be-gan their set. The last time I saw them, I not-ed how each member seemed to represent a character from rock’s rich history. This time, all but singer-guitar-ist Chris Jordan were dressed in appropri-ate fall wear with lead guitarist Justin Crump-ton and bassist Mi-cheal Grossman adorn-ing woolen sweaters. D e -spite the toned down appearance, their set was anything but. The songs were as fast and loud as I originally re-membered. Cuts like “Nuclear Summer”, “Batman”, and “Bad Vibes” were propulsive garage rockets, though Jordan’s lyrics were still cast into an indis-tinguishable oblivion. T h e small crowd wasn’t ex-actly receptive to what

the boys had to offer. It seemed as though most of them were con-tent to either stay at the bar and drink, or walk into the adjacent seated room. Those that did step forward and pay attention were happy to nod their head a bit, but the opening band blues were in full effect. The ever catchy “Go Away” closed the band’s set with its smack-ing riffs at full power. T h e next band to play was Devin, a trio consist-ing of frontman and songwriter Devin Ther-riault backed by sup-port bassist Steve Jew-ett and drummer Angus Tarnawsky. Therriault was a fast talking cat who looked like the unbelievable fusion of Jack Black and either one of the Gallagher brothers of Oasis fame. W h i l e his guitar playing was simple and brash, he made up for it with loads of personality. The man would shake, limbo and drop to the tune of his own beat. Often, he would entice the audience to “let go” and “break free”, pre-scribing an old school definition of rock n’ roll as a catalyst for loose self-expression and fun. His band mates, while never in-troduced, weren’t quite as enigmatic as their leader. Drummer Angus Tarnawsky certainly made up for that in his ability. The man was ferocious, his drums cannons of tumbling noise that set song after song on fire. Tarnawsky seemed awfully aware of his ability, sometimes grinning and nodding at specific members of the crowd after a particular-ly powerful drum trick.

T h e r -riault’s primary goal seemed to be to get the small crowd to dance.”D’ya under-stand?” he would rhetor-ically ask the audience after his small sugges-tions to groove. Some members of the crowd obliged him, two girls in particular doing what I would interpret as the “sky-punch-hip-shake” to just about every song. S o m e -times Therriault’s fast talking personality could break the spell he attempted to create. He at one point impatiently asked the sound guy in the back how many songs they could play, breaking the “we’re here for you” vibe they initially offered. De-spite the time clock, cuts like the tempo shifting “New Horrors” and the soulful “I’ve Been A Fool” were convincing enough to make me believe Ther-riault felt for the crowd as much as himself. The big act of the night ushered a change in scenery. The colorful lights and bau-

bles held in the ceiling of the venue were turned off, as dark stage lights were cast. A projector was used to cast shift-ing psychedelic images on a screen behind the band’s gear. The house lights were dimmed, and the stage was set for Dum Dum Girls to make their entrance. Both Nightmare Boyzzz and Devin al-luded to how great Dum Dum Girls would be, and from the heaps of positive press I’ve read about them, my ex-pectations were high. The girls came out clad in black garb with heaps of heavy eye-liner on. Silver haired front woman Dee Dee was the only one of the brood to lack black hair.As the band began their first song, Dee Dee ap-proached the micro-phone, guitar in hand, with body swaying swagger. Her stare was one of confidence and seduction as she be-gan to sing. Her voice was a smoky flick-er, but its inflection was clear and strong.Her backing band col-

ored her songs with stomp and harmony. Drummer Sandy, while the furthest from the au-dience in distance, was easily the most heard. Her no frills drum parts kept an even ground on the sometimes wistful tone Dee Dee and the other girls could create. Guitar in this band was a bit of an afterthought, despite Dee Dee and lead guitarist Jules’ consistent playing.Bassist Malia had technical issues dur-ing the band’s set. Her microphone stand would go limp as she would attempt to set it up. Despite several at-tempts to tighten it, in-cluding a friendly try by Dee Dee, a Bottle Tree tech guy eventu-ally adjusted it prop-erly. Later on, Malia’s bass tone would con-tinually fluctuate in volume, causing her to constantly signal the soundman at the back of the house to adjust it.Despite the bugs, Ma-lia’s playing was espe-cially prominent. Dee Dee, Malia, and Jules would group together

and dance with their instruments during the faster numbers. Grins would break across their faces, adding a bit of friendly play-fulness to their other-wise gloomy aesthetic.Cuts from the band’s new “End of Daze” EP were especially stellar. The steady “Mine To-night” and name check-ing “Season In Hell” were especially strong vocally, despite the vol-ume of the instruments obscuring the great lyr-ics. The rollicking beats of “Wasted Away” and “He Gets Me High” provided a nice contrast to the starker material the band played from the “End of Daze” EP.The band provided the crowd with a single song encore and bowed afterwards. Though qui-et throughout most of their set, the band drew a large crowd that danced and whooped their num-bers. It was a cold night on Sunday, but the rock was served good and hot within the Bottle Tree.

that (to me) is the per-fect Halloween record. There are ghosts, cloudy midnights, and also ut-ter darkness. Creepy, haunting, and beautiful all in one - Ryan Adams' record 29 is my favorite album for the occasion. The album starts

with a steady bass-drum beat. A-one-and-two and-one-and-two, the meshed guitars fol-low suit, humming and howling, scratching and screaming. "I was a poor little kid in the lungs of New York," Ryan's subtle growl keenly emerges on cue. "Like a sun that just wouldn't set out on the horizon / Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs." It's Adams's ode to get-ting older, to losing friends, to seeking the fountain of youth. Lots of spine-tingling phras-es cast here throughout. Third track "Night Birds" is where the musical creepiness really starts to set in. A starless night is paint-ed with muffled keys, and the assumed tape

noise partially conceals the full, orange moon. Ryan's lyrics here are alternately weathered and wistful - A line of aging, coupled with a line of peace. The over-powering distortion of his electric guitar then crashes over the soundscape as he ends his second run through the chorus - Ghostly echoes swell with a startling suddency, hur-tling the progression into wild, eerie chaos. "Blue Sky Blues" and "Starlite Diner" are the calmest of the set - Evocative, but wholly controlled. This is where the creepiness temporarily shifts to contemplation, for brief-but-beautiful moments. "Starlite Din-er" in particular feels

dreamy, like the natu-ral fog that occurs on the inside of a window during an autumn rain. Ryan's piano-playing on both songs is mostly simple, but is far from repetitive. He's joined, in little bursts, by strings or bass or something subtle - Each adding a light tint to the blue-grey sonic atmosphere. The fright re-turns in its strongest sense with the songs toward the end of the album - with "The Sad-ness" and "Voices." "The Sadness" is sharp, loud, and angsty, the hispanic tinge from the electric guitars add-ing only deadlier vibes and more drama. Ryan hisses, "Deny me / Deny me my destiny!" - Later erupting primally

into screams of "Oh, I can give you whatever you're wanting! / Just take it, and spare me! / Spare me, please!" If that isn't enough to get your Halloween blood pumping, try "Voices" on for size. It's the al-bum's finale, and Ryan and his guitar do the most emotional dam-age of the whole re-cord here. No spoiling the surprises, so just go listen to it. Be prepared for shivers, shakes, and checking the dark cor-ners of your room before you go to sleep tonight. Seven years af-ter its release, Ryan Adams's 29 is still my favorite Hallow-een record. Have a fun and safe one, all your music-loving guys and ghouls out there!

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lifestyleRocky Horror takes over The Alabama Theaterby Clark StackhouseContributing Writer

Monday, October 29th, 2012

The time of year has once again come, where men and women don their highest heels and converge on the Al-abama Theater for the Rocky Horror Masquer-ade Ball. The costume contest had great hits and the shadow cast did a wonderful job while the movie played on. The winner of the general characters costume was Melanie Daniels from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. She was dressed in a pe-riod appropriate green suit. She had crows fabricated to look like they were attacking her from above. No picture was able to be taken.

The Grateful Dead’s blue dancing bear took second. Taking third place was some-one dressed as Rene Magritte’s painting, Son of Man. It was a perfect representation of the painting.

A man dressed as Frank-N-Furter took first place for the third year in a row for the Rocky Horror contest.

The Lips that took second place, for the second year, had a zombie flair this year.

The winners were named and the show began. The Lips took the stage lip synch-ing to “Science Fiction.”

The night continued in its annual festivities, and afterwards the historic Ala-bama theater was covered in rice, newspa-per, water, toast, and newspaper. The shadow cast took their bows and the costumed audience exited, planning for what they would come as next year.

More bullets, more of the same

Marshal Law

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This is no Call of Duty, and that is a good thing. Medal of Honor: Warfighter by Electronic Arts and Danger Close games isn’t for fans of the outlandish battles, ridiculous scenarios and over the top weap-onry of other first per-son shooters. Fear not though, the explosive action remains intact. The Medal of Honor series serves as collective hats off to the Special Operators, or Tier 1, in America like the U.S. Navy SEALs and Delta Force as well as from other countries including the British SAS, Ger-man KSK and even the Norwegian FSK/HJK. The acronyms for all 10 of the elite units you can control are

by Andrew MeechumAssociate Editor

beside the point. What you need to know is that the story characters and the squad of Tier 1 Op-erators you control in multiplayer are based on real men, real equip-ment and real events. Being given the opportunity to see the world as some of the best trained fighting machines is fantastic. The single player story revolves around the Op-erator “Preacher”, who after several deploy-ments is struggling to keep his marriage afloat. The story campaign aims to humanize these warriors and show what battles they fight on the front lines and the home front. You’ll visit hotspots in Paki-stan, Somalia and the Philippines as you work to stop a global terror-ist threat and be treated to plenty of big booms,

tense chases and…hang on a second where have we heard this before?Based on real events maybe but the story is certainly tailored to fit in to what the in-dustry thinks gamers want to see and doesn’t really deviate from the terrorist manhunt genre of storytelling. All that being said it’s a first person shooter and people really just want it for the multiplayer. Sadly there aren’t any real wonders to behold here either. The for-mula stays true with familiar game modes like team death match and sector control, but nothing ground-breaking or unfamiliar. For the dedicated you can go to the Battlelog website and track your progress as well as com-pete in the Warfighter Nations using tokens

won during multiplayer battles. You will have to sign up to Origins by Electronic Arts to ac-cess the online functions but it is a free service.Overall the gameplay is solid but formulaic and a bit tired. The graph-ics are nice and detailed,

as one would expect. It was actually nice to see a color palette more closely related to the muted post apocalyptic landscape of Fallout 3 as opposed to the bub-blegum bright shades of the Call of Duty series.This game may not

be worth the $60 ask-ing price considering you’re paying for more of the same but pick-ing up a used copy on the cheap is worth the chance to experience Tier 1 Operators at work. The Falcon gives Medal of Honor: Warf-ighter a 7.5 out of 10.

Decide to go a Halloween party last minute? Don’t have a costume? Here are a few cheap, easy, and quick ideas. All the materials can be found at the dollar store. Traffic light: This is a great inventive way to do a last minute costume. The backing is done with just a piece of yellow poster board, glued to cardboard to strengthen it. The lights are touch lights wrapped in their respective colors using tissue paper. Wear it around your neck us-ing a bent hanger or ribbon glued or taped to the poster board. Salt and pep-per shakers: A great last minute couple costume. All you need is a white and black trash bag, alu-minum foil, and poster board. Cut arm holes and a head hole in the trash bags; place an S from the aluminum foil on the white bag, and a P on the black bag. Take the poster board and cut

two strips. Measure the strips to the head, staple in place and cover in foil, using a sharpie place three dots on the salt and five on the pepper. Cereal killer: This is one of the sim-plest costumes out there, but it will al-ways receive a laugh and compliments. Take single serve cereal boxes and place knives through each of them. Tape to either a plain colored shirt or a piece of poster board. For added flare, use some red around the stab holes, to look like blood. Smartie pants: The easiest costume. Wear your everyday clothes and simply tape smarties to your pants. The Hipster: Find a plaid or v-neck shirt, a scarf and a pair of black framed glasses. Either use or create a mockup of an iPad and constantly remark how you knew about every-thing before it was cool.

by Clarke StackhouseContributing Writer

Costumes on a budget

This is the Fal-con’s first super pow-ered super heroes showdown. Two com-ics picked at random from a stack of 25 cent books. The com-ics Marshal Law and Deadly Duo are both forgotten relics from the 90s comic book scene. Of course the 90s may have brought some great things to comics, for the most part it was a dark time for the indus-try. We’ll take a look at each in a few catego-ries that may make or break a comic book to decide which is better. First up the all important costumes. Marshall Law’s costume is a little hard to put into words which is rarely a good thing. The best way to put it is a leather fetish suit mixed with a Nazi uniform. Having the main star of a com-ic dressed like a Nazi generally is not a good idea. Of course the cos-tumes in Deadly Duo may have been a little

The 25 cent comic review:Marshal Law vs Deadly Duo

by Matt LordContributing Writer

plain they at least look the part of a Superhero. So the rule of keeping it simple really works in their favor. I would say that Deadly Duo wins in Costumes design. Round 2, plot. Marshall Law had a rel-atively original idea as a government employed “hero killer”. Though it left a bad taste in my mouth after reading it, at least it was an inter-esting idea. Deadly Duo felt like a stale Batman and Robin rip-off that brought nothing new to the table. It was purely a parody and noth-ing more. So the win-ner of in this category goes to Marshall Law. Round 3, dia-logue. Deadly Duos dialogue was extremely cheesy. For example this gem, “Soon the drug I injected you with will take effect and you’ll see me as a beautiful women”. The line coming from a male Villain called Laff-a-lot. Laff-a-lot looks a bit like a cross between the Joker and the prop comic Carrot Top. This was followed up by quite a few cheap homophobic jokes be-cause of the drug’s ef-fects. The humor gen-erally kept to a school yard level throughout

the book and never real-ly progressed past that. Marshall Law on the other hand had rela-tively decent dialogue if not a little over dra-matic at times. It had a satirical nature to it, jabbing at classic comic book conventions. One line that sticks out is “It’s impossible no one can be a superman no one!” This one line re-ally solidifies the theme of the comic. So I would say that Marshall Law won this round. Category four, action. Deadly Duo was more about the jokes than the action. When they actually did some fighting it looked decent but it was noth-ing special. Marshall Law on the other hand had this certain ugliness to the fights that really worked for it. When someone was punched it really jumped off the page. So again Mar-shall Law takes the win. Round 5, lik-ability of characters. The characters in Dead-ly Duo were charming-ly cheesy. The duo is made up of Kill Cat and Boy Wonder, though cheesy the characters were funny and hard to hate. Marshall Law was a little too “woe is me, I am so deep” for my

taste. The self loathing anti hero was just not appealing. The writers just seemed to be try-ing too hard to sell the idea of the character. Deadly Duos hu-mor made for characters that are actually very likable with gives them the win for this round. The last catego-ry is art. Deadly Duos art was pretty standard, nothing all that amazing but not that bad. The art-work on the cover was the same as the comic so no ugly surprises with that. Marshall Law on the other hand had terrible cover art with even worse inte-rior art. The faces where blockish and the bodies were very badly pro-portioned. There were even a few points where it looked like a differ-ent artist had taken over. So when it comes to art-work Deadly Duo won. The overall win-ner? Marshall Law is an overall a better comic. The plot is more engag-ing than Deadly Duos cheap humor and be-sides the few problemsI had with the book I may actually pick up another issue. I don’t think I will ever read another Deadly Duo comic.

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UM Alumni pre-miering new short film on Halloween

UM Alumni Carl Conway Maguire (2008) along with Megan Stein (UM 2008) have been in New York City the past four years working on the-atre and film projects. This Halloween they are debuting their first big project titled “Visiting Hours” The Film stars former Montevallo students Lynsey Buckelew and Devin Lilly. The film was made for a friendly com-petition called Spooky Fest. The film will make its online debut at 9 p.m. central time. The Falcon will link to the stream as soon as it is published. Check our Facebook on Octo-ber 31 for more information.

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